Here is an article I wrote back in 2019 examining the origins of Chess based on a combined study of Cladistic (game-tree) analysis and Wave theory (synonymous to horizontal gene transmission).
The article is a bit technical but hopefully interesting. The isolated conclusions from the analysis are quite clear – the Persian Chatrang (synonymous to the Arabic Shatranj) is the oldest game.
When you add the fact that also the oldest written chess sources and chess pieces are Persian (a fact already acknowledged by Murray in 1913), there should be no doubt that the Persian chess origin theory is still very much alive.
Hi,
Here is an article I wrote back in 2019 examining the origins of Chess based on a combined study of Cladistic (game-tree) analysis and Wave theory (synonymous to horizontal gene transmission).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whOWaj3B9w13PzJV4-laMNl3W6eC60Qi/edit
The article is a bit technical but hopefully interesting. The isolated conclusions from the analysis are quite clear – the Persian Chatrang (synonymous to the Arabic Shatranj) is the oldest game.
When you add the fact that also the oldest written chess sources and chess pieces are Persian (a fact already acknowledged by Murray in 1913), there should be no doubt that the Persian chess origin theory is still very much alive.
Rungne